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California's New ... ' Out-of-the Closet Atheists..'
cbs47 ^ | 8-1-11 | cakid1

Posted on 08/01/2011 3:29:32 PM PDT by cakid1

They call themselves 'Backyard Skeptics.'

One of their ads, includes the saying ' Out of the Closet Atheists.."

They're spending thousands of dollars to put-up 30 bus-shelter ads from Anaheim to Mission Viejo. Their message:

“Have Doubts? So Do We”

"The campaign is aimed at letting other nonbelievers know “there is a community of non-theists who share the idea that we can be good without God,” The Orange County Register quoted Backyard Skeptics director Bruce Gleason as saying."

"The ads are offending commuter, the newspaper noted. “If they don’t want to believe in God then they should just be quiet about it,” an Anaheim resident, Melinda Holt, was quoted as saying. “Why do they have to buy a poster and put it in public view? I’m a Christian and to see the Holy Bible in an ad that questions its worth – that’s just not OK.”


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1 posted on 08/01/2011 3:29:34 PM PDT by cakid1
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To: cakid1

Why are atheists so obsessed with something they believe does not exist?


2 posted on 08/01/2011 3:40:58 PM PDT by oldbrowser (They're socialists don't call them liberals)
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To: cakid1

The continued normalizing of psychosis marches on.


3 posted on 08/01/2011 3:43:06 PM PDT by Track9 (Make War!!)
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To: oldbrowser

Allah doesn’t exist. But Muhammad’s madness does.


4 posted on 08/01/2011 3:44:32 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: cakid1

If there were no God there would be no atheists.


5 posted on 08/01/2011 3:52:03 PM PDT by bad company (There are no illegal guns, just undocumented firearms.)
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To: cakid1

Atheists worry me. You can’t kill 200 million people in one century and be right in the head.


6 posted on 08/01/2011 3:56:43 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home." - Cicero)
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To: cakid1

What about the “in the closet” atheists?

I’ll bet there are plenty of those. No real benefit to openly professing atheism outside of the academic subculture.

How many in the clergy?


7 posted on 08/01/2011 4:09:25 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

More despicable blood libel.

Typical Christian slander.


8 posted on 08/01/2011 4:11:07 PM PDT by Salman
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To: cakid1

“Have Doubts? So Do We”

If they have doubts then they are not atheist.


9 posted on 08/01/2011 4:13:58 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (I am still looking)
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To: cakid1
there is a community of non-theists who share the idea that we can be good without God

Jesus said that no one is good except God the Father.

10 posted on 08/01/2011 4:14:16 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Simplistic answers to complex problems never work and are only proposed by simple people.)
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To: cakid1
they can get their own license plates that say "NOBODY Loves You"
11 posted on 08/01/2011 4:21:36 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Salman

What’s despicable is all the people that atheistic regimes in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. etc. killed.

Atheists killed more people in one century than all religions, of whatever stripe, did in the previous 69 combines.

It’s scary to think that atheists killed more people in the 20th century than were even alive on the earth at the time Jesus was walking it.


12 posted on 08/01/2011 4:22:47 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home." - Cicero)
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To: cakid1

A fool says there is no God.


13 posted on 08/01/2011 4:45:30 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ThomasThomas
If they have doubts then they are not atheist.
Yeah, you beat me to it.
I always thought doubters were agnostic and non-believers were atheists.
14 posted on 08/01/2011 4:58:30 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

How few need to be killed before sanity is assured.


15 posted on 08/01/2011 5:15:38 PM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: oldbrowser

1. They know they can’t prove a negative. If they are intellectually honest, being finite beings, they have to admit it’s totally possible that God does exist, they just haven’t found Him yet.

2. They are intellectually dishonest because many have an internal bias that doesn’t want there to be a God. This allows them to discount evidence others see as proof of God. Even if God returned in front of their faces they would sit there and say they were hallucinating, someone’s pulling some kind of trick on them.

3. They hate to see so many people - the vast overwhelming majority - believing something very strongly, that they themselves don’t. It’s a constant irritating reminder to them that almost everyone else in the world does NOT believe what they do.

4. It further irritates them even more because they think these people are so stupid and they have so little in the way of strong arguments that really work to change their minds.


16 posted on 08/01/2011 5:49:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: oh8eleven

I believe many people that claim to be agnostic are really atheists. At least “hopeful atheists”.


17 posted on 08/01/2011 5:50:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: cakid1

There’s no atheists in foxholes.


18 posted on 08/01/2011 6:13:52 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are..)
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To: ThomasThomas

“If they have doubts then they are not atheists...”

I agree. I don’t know of one Christian that didn’t “question” their religion at some point. Maybe not right out there with “God doesn’t exist” but more along the lines “why doesn’t God help me or cure a person”. It is typical and personally I believe God welcomes questions of faith. How else could we contemplate Him and religion in general. For example, we recently had a close relative go through heck with bone cancer/lung cancer/shattered hip etc... Her sister “questioned” why God would make a good person go through so much agony. After her death, the sister is actually more spiritual and religious. Why? I think she realized that God was with her and her sister even during the most difficult times.


19 posted on 08/01/2011 7:23:25 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: oldbrowser

God doesn’t believe in atheists.


20 posted on 08/01/2011 7:32:38 PM PDT by redeemedbyHim
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